Reverend Moon is no more an anti-semite than any other Christian. He simply beleives that the Jewish people lost their position as God's chosen people when they failed to protect Jesus when the Romans crucified him - not that the Global Peace Festival has anything to do with these specific religious beliefs.

The Global Peace Festival is an intereligious event, one of it's main sponsors being the Universal Peace Federation - The International and Interreligious Federation for World Peace.

I will tell you flat out that Unificationist such as myself are the main force behind the GPF event and the UPF, but I do not believe the website hides this fact.

If you go to the GPF USA Partners section here: gpfusa.org/partners/ you will see that the founding partners are listed as the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC), Points of Light/ Hands on Network, Communities of Peace Foundation, The Kingmaker Foundation, Universal Peace Federation (UPF), and Youth Federation for World Peace (YFWP). The YFWP is the youth devision of our church, the official name of which is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU).

Furthermore, if you click on the link for the full list of partners here: gpfusa.org/partners/list-of-partners/ you can see the FFWPU listed, in alphebetical order. For some reason wich I cannot explain because I'm not working with the web admins of the website, it along with many other partners do not include a website link, but it still is listed there and can be easily researched on the web with any decent search engine.

You may visit the official website of the international FFWPU here: www.ffwpu.org/ or the US website here: familyfed.org/

I don't have time to address you claims of father Moon being a "neo-facist" in full, but I can tell you that be beleives strongly in the prinsiple that God gave us free will. Therefore, while in a perfect world where everyone has the same views about God I think he likes the idea of a religious monarchy where a couple would rule as the direct representatives of God, untill then I think he strongly beleives in Republican Democracy as the best form of government so that the people of the world can turn to God at their own face and of their own free will.

Now, I have no official title in the FFWPU or the UPF so I cannot speak officially for them, but the statements I've made today in this comment are what I sincerely believe to be true, and I hope that the violent bias of a few will not ruin something meant to help so many.

Wishing you freedom, peace, and true love in your life,

Christopher D. Osborn
fipher.blogspot.com

The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building — crown, robes, the works — is no longer one of Washington’s best-kept secrets.

June 21, 2004 | You probably imagine your congressman hard at work in the Capitol debating legislation, making laws — you know, governing. But your newspaper probably didn’t tell you that one night in March, members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict and multibillionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming.

On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin — the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him “none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”

To many observers, this bizarre scene would have looked like the apocalypse as depicted in “Left Behind” novels. Moon, 84, the benefactor of conservative foundations like the American Family Coalition — who served time in the 1980s for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice — has views somewhere to the right of the Taliban’s Mullah Omar. Moon preaches that gays are “dung-eating dogs,” Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls “Godism” — with him in charge. The man crowned “King of Peace” by congressmen once said, according to sermons reprinted in his church’s Unification News: “Suppose I were to hit you with the baseball bat to stop you, bloodying your ear and breaking a bone or two, yet still you insisted on doing more work for Father.”

What, exactly, drew at least a dozen members of Congress to Moon’s coronation? (By the Unification Church’s estimate, 81 congressmen attended, although that number is probably high.) The event was the grand finale of Moon’s coast-to-coast “tear down the cross” Moonification tour, intended to remove Christian crosses from almost 300 churches in poor neighborhoods — the idea being that the cross was an obstacle to uniting religions under Moon. Yet the Dirksen ceremony was sold as a celebration of world peace. According to a cheery promotional video released by Moon’s International and Interreligious Federation for World Peace, the ceremony marked the dawn of “the era of the Eternal Peace Kingdom, one global family under God.” Moon’s coronation also cured God’s pain, the announcer explains.

By all accounts, most of the congressmen in attendance didn’t expect a coronation. Instead, they thought they were heading to an awards dinner honoring activists from their home states as “Ambassadors for Peace.” A flier for the event claimed an impressive who’s-who of organizers, including Republicans Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland and Charlie Black, a top Republican strategist. Democrats were named, too, like Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee, who, incidentally, claims to have not even heard of the event.

And then there was Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill., the only congressman who has publicly expressed pride in the crowning ceremony, who praised Moon for bringing religious leaders together in his Ambassadors for Peace tours to Jerusalem and beyond. Davis, it was revealed this week in the Chicago Reader, took money from Moon-organized fundraisers, who also gave to a charity of his choice. Davis told an Anglican magazine that Moon’s remarks were “similar to a baseball team owner telling team members that ‘we are the greatest team on earth’” to get them fired up.

At the time, the surreal event went uncovered by the Washington press corps, save for Moon’s own Washington Times, which ran a brief description of the festivities. The story is getting some traction only now, after it was recently reported in the online magazine The Gadflyer. But what transpired at Dirksen two months ago remains a mystery to most Americans — and those constituents of congressmen who attended Moon’s crowning.

The crowning ritual indeed began as a somewhat normal awards ceremony. Ribbons that looked like Olympic gold medals were given to Rep. Bartlett and others. But then it took an odd turn. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., whose office maintained he did not attend the event until I provided photographs of him there — spoke beside a photograph of himself pinning an American flag on Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, back when President Bush was praising him for abandoning WMD programs and before he was suspected of trying to kill the leader of Saudi Arabia.

Then, after Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., gave a speech praising one of Moon’s Ambassadors for Peace, the civil rights veteran Rev. Walter Fauntroy, an unnamed Lubovitch rabbi took the stage declaring: “I have never seen this miracle where Jews, Christians and Muslims come together for peace!” Then Moon’s cleric Chung Kwak took the mic. Before his days as the commander of the UPI wire service, Kwak, Moon said in a 1997 speech, was authorized to whomp on Unification Church members who slacked off. “Particularly those who are sleeping and hiding, Reverend Kwak’s baseball bat will fall upon you at any time,” Moon said. Now Kwak was standing in a Senate office building declaring Moon the king of the “second and third Israel.”

It might almost make sense for conservative congressmen to honor Moon in this way. After all, a writer in Moon’s magazine Insight wrote in February that it’s long past time for Republicans to thank the billionaire Korean preacher for his gifts. “[T]he continued refusal of Beltway conservatives publicly to acknowledge their steadfast patron is, of course, scandalous,” wrote contributor Paul Gottfried. Moon has sunk an estimated $2-$4 billion into the money-losing Times, and countless other causes — like Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University.

Moon has also made inroads in the Bush administration, as Salon reported last September, with plum appointments for former or present Moon VIPs, and almost half a million dollars in abstinence-only grants supporting Moon’s anti-sex crusade. To teach teens that “free sex” is revolting, they’re asked by Moon’s followers to drink other people’s spit out of a cup, and then consider how much more vigilant you must be when sharing other body fluids.

While Moon once focused his energies on anti-Communism, making him popular among Republicans in the Reagan era — his organization gave the first $100,000 to Oliver North’s Nicaraguan Freedom Fund — he has now shifted gears, aiming left. He’s planning a “Peace United Nations” entwining religions instead of countries and is trying to make friends in the Congressional Black Caucus, like Rep. Davis. No congressman, on the right or left, has publicly denounced Moon for his momentous speeches describing his “peace kingdom” as a place where “gays will be eliminated” in a “purge on God’s orders” he says will be like Stalin’s. And many are surprisingly comfortable around a guy known for over-the-top speeches about the holy “love organ of life” and its various fluids. In a 1994 speech, he asked: “Do you like the smell of your husband’s semen? Answer to Father. Does it smell good or bad? You may not like the smell of your wife’s stool, but do you smell your own? Why don’t you smell your own but you smell your wife’s? Because you are not totally one.”

But if Moon pulled off his greatest trick on Mar. 23, fooling some unsuspecting congressmen into attending his coronation, it’s not as if his stunt was new — for more than 25 years, Moon has sought to surround himself with powerful people to gain credibility and legitimacy, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. If the congressmen had simply run “Ambassadors for Peace” through the Google search engine, they would have discovered the group was tied to Moon and his grand plans for the future of Christianity — plans to “reconcile” religions by tearing the Christian cross off church walls and persuading Jews to sign apologies for giving Jesus over to the Romans.

Weldon, for one, had a long time to do that Google search. As far back as June 19, 2003, he’s listed in a speech by Rep. Danny K. Davis on the floor of the House of Representatives honoring Moon: “Many of my colleagues will join me and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon), co-chair, in giving tribute to some of the outstanding Americans from our districts,” said Davis. “We are grateful to the founders of Ambassadors for Peace, the Reverend and Mrs. Sun Myung [Moon], for promoting the vision of world peace, and we commend them for their work.”

As for Moon’s vision of world peace, there are widespread reports, even acknowledged within Moon’s church, of allegations that in 1989 he allowed brutal inquisitions to take place. The inquisitor, a man Moon apparently believed was the reincarnation of his son, was allegedly encouraged to tie people to radiators and beat them. As a result, Moon’s trusted lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak, was said to have suffered minor brain damage. Wrote his daughter-in-law, Nansook Hong, in her tell-all book: “Sun Myung Moon seemed to take pleasure in the reports that filtered back to East Garden of the beatings being administered by the Black Heung Jin. He would laugh raucously if someone out of favor had been dealt an especially hard blow.” Members of Congress may want to do their homework before they crown their next King of Peace.

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected since its original publication.

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In the story Hail to the Moon king, published June 21, 2004, Salon reported that Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., gave a speech in a Senate office building praising Rev. Sun Myung Moon. This was based on a videotape of the event, which was edited to show Cummings speaking highly of an unidentified individual right after an image of Moon. Cummings has since told a Maryland newspaper his remarks were in fact about one of Moon’s Ambassadors of Peace who was honored at the ceremony, not about Moon. The story has been changed to reflect this.
Correction made 06/21/04.

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About the writer

• Posted with the kind permission of John Gorenfeld (www.gorenfeld.net), a freelance writer in San Francisco. First published in Salon.com

Eat my nuggets.

i am in if there is free food.

Here's a song I made up about the Moonie's early days preaching in airports (waaay pre-911, of course):

(to the tune "yeah we're the Monkees)

Yea-eah we're the Moonies
Mooning people in airports
really working that ass!

Of the six “founding partners” of the GPF - 3 are Moon front groups, another is run by a minister who has been heavily involved with Moon for years and one is the latest incarnation of the 1000 Points of Light which was started by Bush 41. The Bush family has promoted Moon’s messianic mission all over the world. Moon donated a million bucks to the 1000 Points of Light and a million to Bush’s library beyond the millions in speaking fees for 41 from Moon over the years. Bush hosted the main Moon front, the Universal Peace Federation, at his library earlier this year. Neil Bush has promoted the UPF and with it Moon’s role as the Messiah. Moon gave him a million also.

The Universal Peace Federation is the culmination of Moon’s life long plot to influence the world to follow him as the messiah. In Moon world they say the UPF is the “central dispensation of God.” The UPF is Moon’s own United Nation’s. Moon names “Ambassadors for Peace” to be the workers for the UPF. Most are well meaning and deserving of honors but are being used. Moon’s son, Hyun Jin, and the AfP who take instruction in Moon’s ideology and are most loyal to Moon will run the UPF.

The battle cry for the UPF is “One family under God!” Sound good? Well, Moon has actually declared his words to be God’s. He believes he speaks for God - that he is the arbiter of God’s will. They should be yelling, “One family under Moon.”

This is what former Moon follower Steve Kemperman said about this in his 1980 book “Lord of the Second Advent”:

excerpt:

Father was always clear about God's ultimate goal of restoration - that one day all nations of the world would follow him and realize a one-world family under God - global theocracy guided by heaven through God's perfect son, Sun Myung Moon. […]

The Sunday before the [Yankee Stadium] rally, Father strutted back and forth across the outdoor stage at the Belvedere estate. The Sun Myung Moon who addressed a strict family audience was shockingly different from the one I encountered at the Day of Hope talk in Berkeley. Amongst his followers he did not conceal his desire to influence and control world affairs.

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Moon’s former daughter in law described it this way while discussing Moon’s tax fraud conviction:

www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif148.html

"In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family" - 1998 - By Nansook Hong

excerpt:

There was no question inside the church that the Reverend Moon used his religious tax exemption as a tool for financial gain in the business world. […]

No matter what the lawyers said in court, no one internally disputed that the Reverend Moon commingled church and business funds. No one had any problem with it. How often had I heard church advisers discuss funneling church funds into his business enterprises and political causes because his religious, business, and political goals are the same: world dominance for the Unification Church. It was U.S. tax laws that were wrong, not Sun Myung Moon. Man's law was secondary to the Messiah's mission.

The Reverend Moon's philosophy sounded benign enough: "The world is fast becoming one global village. The survival and prosperity of all are dependent on a spirit of cooperation. The human race must recognize itself as one family of man." What his civil libertarian allies outside the Unification Church failed to realize was that Sun Myung Moon, and only Sun Myung Moon, was the head of that family.
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Beware of The Violent Anarchist Rampage!

As a wise man once said, judge by the fruit. Right now around the city man youth groups are doing charitable activities in support of the GPF's one million acts of kindness. Calling people together under the idea of one family one God also seems like one that reflects the need to heal the conflict caused by dividing ourselves.

Do I agree with the teachings of Moon, NO!!!

I will say I would rather see groups around the city supporting charitable acts and making contributions.

He and his teachings only have the power that one would give them.

Why is it that when someone stands up for something true and good in this world, there are those who must find some reason to tear them down? The person who wakes up thinking about how to restore peace in this world, who goes throughout their day in service to others, and falls asleep at night with the determination to do even more the day after is the only person who has the right to pass judgement on these endeavors.

At the Global Peace Festival, a mother, whose son was shot in a gang related incident was able to embrace the mother of the boy who killed him.

At the Global Peace Festival, two young men, one from Palestine and one from Israel, both of whom lost family members in suicide bombings and other conflicts in the Middle East, stood arm in arm like brothers.

Tell me that that is not humanity at it's very best. Tell me that that is not where true peace begins.

God bless the Global Peace Festival.

It is so awesome to see youth and people of all ages going out there, having fun helping people, cleaning the streets, and donating food to the poor. Doing these service acts, helping others with people of different backgrounds, religions, and races... you can feel that bonding, that we're really not all that different. That we're all one family! And what is greater than one family under God!? If this kind of culture in the youth can grow and spread, that's great!
Stop digging your nose in books and computers for a day, and start dig'n weeds out for your neighbor for a day! There is a joy in helping other people, and it's a joy where the giver and receiver both feel the love.